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Saw Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings today. It was good, not great. But I'm wondering about one thing.
If they know the monsters feed off souls, why didn't everyone in the village be all gingers? They don't have souls so then the monsters can't feed and get stronger.

I know I'm being autistic about this next point. Someone in the movie says Jeff Gordon has the most Nascar wins. But Richard Petty has the most wins at 200. Jeff Gordon has 93 wins. The producers of the movie don't know how to search
 
The mystical shit also didn't detract from the more realistic angle of the beginning as much as everyone said it would. Granted, I wish they'd have kept it in "reality", but I guess with that ending they want to immediately throw him into the same league as Marvel and Doctor Strange, so whatever.
 
Much as I'm loathe to watch an MCU film, I had some interest in Shang Chi in part because of some of the talent involved, it was one of the last films noted action director Brad Allen worked on before his untimely death, a man who worked with Hong Kong performers and had been the first non-Asian member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team, and besides veteran performers like Yeoh, Leung, Yuen Wah (among his many roles, the giggling Vietnamese general in Sammo Hung's Eastern Condors and the landlord in Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle) and playing Death Dealer, martial artist and actor Andy Le of the troupe calling themselves Martial Club, who've posted various shorts and sketches on their Youtube channel, and they are some interesting talents to watch.

I see what they're all going for, especially in the second half of the film which seems to take cues from wuxia epics as well as fantasy martial arts films in the vein of A Chinese Ghost Story but despite all of the talent involved it's all coated in a thick layer of MCU "humor" and editing and CGI that smothers anything that might be a tad different or interesting from the established MCU formula. Awkwafina's performance however fits in too well with the Marvel movie formula, as she spouts off one-liners on the same level as every other "Uh, that just happened" and "they fly now?!?" and the "I guess you are wondering how we got here" level gags you've heard in various other big, blundering CGI blockbusters. Calling her performance "nails on a chalkboard" is inaccurate because actual nails being dragged across a chalkboard right now next to me would be a lullaby compared to the unfunny winking at the audience humor that she makes even worse.
 
Shang-Chi now has a Fortnite skin to promote the film.
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For people that loathe subtitles, Shang-Chi will be an annoyance since there are a good amount. This had the most swearing in a MCU film since there are lots of uses of the"shit" from the characters. There are nods to The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Five Deadly Venoms and Kung Fu Hustle. A character from the latter even shows up. Awkwafina is annoying and made the choice of wearing some pants that made her ass look big. There is no chemistry between Simu and Awkwafina, Ben Kingsley (and Wong) show up to connect this movie to the others and are just comic relief for the most part. The movie feels odd as it has a nice mystical/fantasy set up, typical Marvel movie middle and CGI fest towards the end. The post credit scenes just set it up for the Eternals and the inevitable Disney Plus spin-off since they had to work in the whole female empowerment angle regarding the sister. Lots of 88 Rising bands on the soundtrack, so it definitely is the Asian Black Panther and it isn't subtle at all. I found the karaoke stereotype they went to kind of funny.
 
Watched Jacki-Shi and Legend of the Asian Kangs.

It was ... okay? Better than Black Widow, but still entirely forgettable. Nobody except Awkwafina's character had any real story arc either, which was weird. Her character wasn't good and was very barebones, but she had a start, middle and finish to her arc that concluded in a way that made sense for her.

Shang looked really constipated the entire time, the plot didn't really make much sense, and they had like eight different tonal directions they were moving in. 5/10, entirely forgettable.
 
I just saw the movie and it was a decent movie. The actors were fine, nothing fantastic and it was an enjoyable film. Most of the fights were pretty good (mainly the fights that were with Shang-Chi like the bus fight, the fight with his sister, and the one against his dad at the end)

However the movie was pretty weak with some of the jokes that felt out of place like the joke on the plane. Also the fight where sides mindlessly charge at each other is weak as always and the dragon fight was really boring, honestly it just felt like Disney forced it in just to flex their special effects and it being killed by the arrow fired by a comic relief was dumb (honestly I brushed it off as Chinese magic bullshit)

The main characters and the good fight scenes carries this film for me. Especially the main guy and the main villain who was probably one of the better MCU villains since he was pretty sympathetic even if misguided.

The movie is honestly a 7 or 8
 
nosemouth dijo:
Hey, remember when you idiotically insisted Battlefield 5 was successful, which even fucking EA wouldn't claim? LOL
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You've brought this up like 5 times already, to which I reiterated that I was under the impression 8 million copies of a game in a few months was good. I didn't realize that, much like ratings where everything below a 7 is really like a 2 or a 1, that it meant otherwise. You are correct though, I was not seasoned enough in vidya to understand that 8 million copies was actually one of the worst possible failures imaginable.

That said, these riceniggers sure did well for themselves.
 
KillThemCrackasBabies dijo:
You've brought this up like 5 times already, to which I reiterated that I was under the impression 8 million copies of a game in a few months was good. I didn't realize that, much like ratings where everything below a 7 is really like a 2 or a 1, that it meant otherwise. You are correct though, I was not seasoned enough in vidya to understand that 8 million copies was actually one of the worst possible failures imaginable.

That said, these riceniggers sure did well for themselves.
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It's the following weeks you have to watch for. It's not even close to the production budget yet.
 
So I’m not going to actually imply anything here, just point out something I’ve noticed as a casual observer of Phase 4. So far we’ve had Scarlet Witch become way more powerful along with indirectly create another female superhero, we had the introduction of a female Loki, a new Black Widow who’s out to kill Ronin, a upcoming show for both the lady in this new film and a show making Robin’s daughter the new Hawkeye, Black Panther is going to be a woman now due in part to the actor’s untimely death, Thor is also going to be a woman now….

We have now reached a point in which we have a reverse of original Avengers: all women with one or two men.
 
SteelPlatedHeart dijo:
So I’m not going to actually imply anything here, just point out something I’ve noticed as a casual observer of Phase 4. So far we’ve had Scarlet Witch become way more powerful along with indirectly create another female superhero, we had the introduction of a female Loki, a new Black Widow who’s out to kill Ronin, a upcoming show for both the lady in this new film and a show making Robin’s daughter the new Hawkeye, Black Panther is going to be a woman now due in part to the actor’s untimely death, Thor is also going to be a woman now….

We have now reached a point in which we have a reverse of original Avengers: all women with one or two men.
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A-Force', It's it's own thing in the books, though I don't think they're actually going that route.

Also most of them are relatively old characters in Marvel besides Foster Thor. Scarlet Witch being more or less godlike is right from the books so it'd be retarded not to go that route, Yelena Belova has been used off and on since '99, and I doubt Natalie Portman is coming back after this whereas Hemsworth probably is.
 
SteelPlatedHeart dijo:
So I’m not going to actually imply anything here, just point out something I’ve noticed as a casual observer of Phase 4. So far we’ve had Scarlet Witch become way more powerful along with indirectly create another female superhero, we had the introduction of a female Loki, a new Black Widow who’s out to kill Ronin, a upcoming show for both the lady in this new film and a show making Robin’s daughter the new Hawkeye, Black Panther is going to be a woman now due in part to the actor’s untimely death, Thor is also going to be a woman now….

We have now reached a point in which we have a reverse of original Avengers: all women with one or two men.
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Was that ever doubted? MCU aping the comics by using people's nostalgia of the actually good shit they had for a constant stream of pozzed mediocre minus shit. But unlike comics the cost of a bad film cannot be swept under the rug.
 
So what do you guys think of What If...? Outside of the Doctor Strange episode, which I actually really liked, I've found it to be just mediocre at best. There's just something about it that I don't like, and I can't quite put my finger on what it is. It might be the dialogue? A lot of it feels bland, and lazily written. Maybe it's the way they've written the characters? Like how T'Challa was just Gary Stu Space Jesus in the 2nd episode. Anybody else feeling this, and can articulate it better?
 
I just came to post here because my co-worker just alerted me to the fact that Blade is getting the MCU treatment sometime within the next few years.
By May 2013, Marvel Studios had a working script for a new Blade film after regaining the rights following New Line Cinema's prior film series. In February 2019, Mahershala Ali approached Marvel Studios about starring in a new film after previously portraying Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes in Marvel Television's Luke Cage. Kevin Feige officially announced the film with Ali in the title role at the July 2019 San Diego Comic-Con. In February 2021, Stacy Osei-Kuffour was hired to write the film. Bassam Tariq had been hired to direct by September 2021. Filming is expected to begin in July 2022, at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. Blade will be released in a future MCU phase.
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I want you to pay attention to the writer, Stacy Osei-Kuffour. Guess what else she had a hand in?
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THE ONE GOOD NON-WHITE HERO YOU HAD AND YOU HAVE TO FUCK IT UP WITH RACIAL JUSTICE BULLSHIT. FUCK MARVEL, FUCK HOLLYWOOD, FUCK STACY OSEI-KUFFUR, AND FUCK DISNEY.
 
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